2023-09-04 00:47:48
– Stopped by Taylor Fritz, Dominic Stricker has set a date for the future
The New York fairy tale of the young Bernese, manipulated at one hip on Sunday, ended in the round of 16 stage against the American server (7-6 6-4 6-4).
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Dominic Stricker here during his round of 16 encounter against Taylor Fritz at the US Open.
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The relief and celebration of Taylor Fritz had to be seen as a form of tribute to Dominic Stricker. Facing the 9th player in the world, irresistible since the start of the fortnight, the 21-year-old Bernese fought like a lion but was undoubtedly also caught up in a certain fatigue in the round of 16 at the US Open.
Broken on an ugly service game – two double faults and two unforced errors – at 3-4 in the 1st set, Stricker achieved the feat in the wake of taking the face-off from Fritz, who had not been broken in his first three rounds (Johnson, Varillas, Mensik). At 5-5, the Swiss hope even offered himself two opportunities to break but Fritz served the fire. It was not until the decisive game that “Domi” let go of the initial set, weighed down by another double fault and a forehand side shift that ended its race in the net.
For the junior Roland-Garros champion, in 2020, the turning point of this round of 16 undoubtedly came at the start of the 2nd set, when he held his hip to the right at the end of the race. On deck for two weeks in New York, he who came from qualifying, Stricker had spent nearly 16 hours on the court before his appointment with Fritz. After losing the second set – break at 2-2 – the child from Münsingen received medical treatment from the physio at the start of the third. But that did not change the outcome of the match (7-6 6-4 6-4).
Thus ends the fairy tale of Stricker, who will not have missed much on Sunday in the Louis Armstrong stadium. With 284,000 dollars in his pocket and a place in the top 100 – 87th – which opens the doors to the big picture of the Australian Open in January, it is now a question of capitalizing on his promise in New York.
Jeremy Santallo has been a journalist at Sport-Center since 2018. A specialist in basketball and tennis, he has been to Roland-Garros four times and Wimbledon twice.More info@jeremy_santallo
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